Talking turkey and oranges and cauliflower and spinach….

San Francisco’s first food policy is still in the planning stages, but Gavin Newsom is kicking off a key element of it today — he’s holding an “urban-rural roundtable” to talk about making improvements to the regional food system.

The meeting, which is taking place at UC Davis and is off limits to the public, will include half a dozen state and regional agriculture leaders, plus another 50 or so food producers and distributors. They aren’t expected to come up with any firm policy today — more meetings will follow in the next four months.

So why is the mayor hosting his roundtable in Davis? Most of San Francisco’s produce comes from outside the Bay Area “foodshed,” which is the 100-mile radius around the city (and includes Davis farmland). Local environmental and food experts would like to rely more on produce from that foodshed, and less on imported food.